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Consideration of the child protection, crime prevention, and criminal law response to youths' production and distribution of digital sexual imagery, the limits of the emerging construction of consensual sexting as ‘self-exploitation' and the relationship of this rhetoric to mounting fears about the so-called ‘sexualization of culture'. Conclusion: criminal law is too blunt a tool to [...]

Defining the line on cyber-bullying and cyber-harassment. Shariff argues for a need to engage young people in critically assessing the impact of their online postings through dialogue and interactive projects that help them “define the line” as well as increased sensitization of the legal community to the realities of young people’s modes of communication. She [...]

Dr Kenneally is the Principal and Chair of the School of Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University. He delivered this keynote address at the McCord Museum as a launch to Bloomsday 2012, organized by the McGill Community for Lifelong Learning.

After a decade as Principal, Heather Munroe-Blum reflects on the lessons of her term and the serious challenges facing Quebec’s universities in a speech at the Canadian Club in Montreal, March 11, 2013.

On October 24, 2006, PRAM welcomed special guest speaker Lawrence Green, formerly of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta and author of the PRECEDE-PROCEED Ecological Model of Health Program Planning & Evaluation.

A lecture from Luc Courchesne, professor at Université de Montréal and director of Metalab, Society for Arts and Technology (SAT). Part of the Winter 2012 lecture series from McGill’s School of Architecture.

A lecture from Andrew King, Gerald Sheff visiting professor in Architecture at McGill, 2012. Part of the Winter 2012 lecture series from McGill’s School of Architecture.

A lecture from David Scott, Principal, Arup. Part of the Winter 2012 lecture series from McGill’s School of Architecture.

A lecture from Alessandra Ponte, professor at Université de Montréal. Part of the Winter 2012 lecture series from McGill’s School of Architecture.

This conference and roundtable engage the public in an effort to address many of the media, political and social themes that have transpired during the months-long Occupy protests. Keynote address by Chris Hedges: journalist, author, war correspondent, and public intellectual. His most recent book is The World As It Is (2011).

This special Black History Month lecture by Frederic Bertley (Vice-President, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia) focuses on contemporary black and brown scientists who are contributing significantly to science. The talk challenges the idea that scientists in general, regardless of race, are not well recognized and celebrated. This talk is sponsored by the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, and [...]

Special presentation by Steve Rayner (James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization at the Saïd Business School and Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Oxford University). He describes himself as an “undisciplined” scholar lending a social science perspective to major matters of science and technology. He was also listed by Wired Magazine on [...]

Judith E. Heumann is Special Advisor for International Disability Rights to the U.S. Department of State and former World Bank Advisor on Disability and Development. Steven Estey is former Human Rights Officer at Disabled Peoples International and Chair of the International Committee of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities.

Dave Williams graduated from McGill’s Faculty of Medicine and embarked on a fulfilling career as a physician… then he applied to be an astronaut. Hear about his first trip into space and life lessons learned along the way.

The Student Exchanges and Study Abroad office asked McGill students Amanda, Marc and Olga to talk about their experiences studying abroad on student exchanges.

In this footage from the “Learning to Teach” workshop, designed for graduate students and postdoctoral students who are presently teaching or hope to one day teach, Professor Frédéric Mégret offers some closing remarks on teaching to wrap up the workshop.

In this footage from the “Learning to Teach” workshop, designed for graduate students and postdoctoral students who are presently teaching or hope to one day teach, Professor Ken Ragan speaks about the unique challenges of reaching students in a large lecture course.

What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical differences? In this lecture promoting her new book “Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question”, Dr. Eliza Slavet moves far [...]

McGill celebrates Darwin Day and Valentine’s Day with this special presentation by Dr. David Green, the director of Redpath Museum, on courtship and sexual selection in a range of species.

Robert Leckey, qui présente ici l’étude « Families in the Eyes of the Law: Contemporary Challenges and the Grip of the Past » qu’il a menée pour l’IRPP, est professeur adjoint à la Faculté de droit de l’Université McGill. Pour plus d’informations ou pour télécharger l’étude, veuillez visiter le site www.irpp.org.

Robert Leckey is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at McGill. He is also the author of the IRPP study, “Families in the Eyes of the Law: Contemporary Challenges and the Grip of the Past.” This podcast is part of the IRPP's Interview with the Author series. For more information, or to download [...]

Il est parfois difficile de séparer le vrai du faux à propos de maladies comme la grippe H1N1. Cette vidéo réfute certains mythes colportés à ce sujet, et notamment l’idée voulant que cette grippe est somme toute bénigne et que le temps d’attente est très long aux centres de vaccination.

It can sometimes be hard to separate fact from fiction when it comes to diseases like H1N1. This video debunks some of the myths surrounding the disease, such as the common misconceptions that it’s not really that big of a problem, or that getting vaccinated takes a long time.

Tony Blair, on behalf of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, announces that McGill is the first Canadian university, and only the fourth in the world, to join its groundbreaking Faith and Globalization Initiative.

On October 3, 2009, McGill hosted a presentation by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on education and ethics in today's world. Faculty of Education students from six Quebec universities attended. Following the talk, His Holiness responded to questions.

At a ceremony in which he receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from McGill University, former U.S. President Bill Clinton urges his audience to tackle world issues by fostering a “communitarian consciousness.”

Dr. Donald Smith is James McGill Professor and Chair of the Department of Plant Science. His research interests are in the area of plant ecophysiology.